Heba Ahmed, player of the national weightlifting team, snatched 3 gold medals in the clean and jerk ,snatch and the total in the Women's 49kg contests at the first day of the African Weightlifting Championship held from 23rd to 30th of April in hall 2 of Cairo International Stadium.

Heba won the first place with a total of 168kg ahead of Roilya Hanitra of Mauritius who snatched the second place with a total of 164kg and Winnfred Ntumi of Ghana who came in the third place with a total of 124kg.

At the women’s 45kg contests, Rosina Randafiarison of Madagascar won the gold medal with a total of 150kg, while Maha Fajr El-Salam of Morocco came in the second place with a total of 112kg.